1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him.
Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
It is my father;s muste
To speak your deeds.
Shak.
Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes.
Tennyson.
And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
The maker's high magnificence.
Milton.
Report speaks you a bonny monk.
Sir W. Scott. 4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
And French she spake full fair and fetisely.
Chaucer. 5. To address; to accost; to speak to.
[He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
Ecclus. xiii. 6.
each village senior paused to scan
And speak the lovely caravan.
Emerson. To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.
Speakable
(Speak"a*ble) a.
1. Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham.
2. Able to speak. Milton.
Speaker
(Speak"er) n.
1. One who speaks. Specifically: (a) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters
a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. (b) One who is the mouthpiece
of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and
regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the
House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
2. A book of selections for declamation. [U. S.]
Speakership
(Speak"er*ship), n. The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
Speaking
(Speak"ing), a.
1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.
A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange
of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects. — Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat
resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed
